title: Chronic hypothermia following tuberculous meningitis.
abstract: A patient who developed chronic hypothermia following tuberculous meningitis is described. A central defect of thermoregulation was discovered, probably due to a discrete vascular lesion in the anterior hypothalmus.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000209:etiology*; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology